NADIA OWUSU’s debut memoir, Aftershocks, was selected as a best book of 2021 by Time, Vogue, Esquire, The Guardian, NPR, the BBC, and others. It was one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and a 2021 Goodreads Choice Award nominee. It was selected by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai for her Literati book club.
“In a literary landscape rich with diaspora memoirs, Owusu’s painful yet radiant story rises to the forefront. The daughter of an Armenian-American mother who abandoned her and a heroic Ghanaian father who died when she was thirteen, Nadia drifted across continents in a trek that she renders here with poetic, indelible prose.”
“A gorgeous and unsettling memoir.”
— New York Times
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Aftershocks is available as an audiobook, read by the author from Simon Audio.
Aftershocks: UK Edition
Aftershocks is also available in the UK from Sceptre, the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.
“This extraordinary memoir is a seismic tale of unravelling her sense of self from a tangle of different languages and homelands. Owusu is a writer to watch.”
BOOKSELLER (UK), EDITOR'S CHOICE